Arc 34The God of Destruction’s War

Long Zhanye completed his God of Destruction inheritance, drew Huo Yuhao and the Body Sect into his growing power, and defied divine intervention on the Douluo Continent. The Body Sect was devastated by the Heavenly God Hunters, while its survivors began receiving divine inheritances and Long Zhanye faced Ma Hongjun.

  • Long Zhanye defeated the Yin Yang Chaos Bird, gained the Destruction God Armor and a First-Level God position, and concealed his divine presence after killing the Heavenly God Hunters sent to guide him.
  • Long Zhanye resurrected Xiahou Ling and offered Huo Yuhao a place in the Body Sect, where Huo Yuhao severed ties with the Clear Sky Sect and helped Green Emperor form a second soul core.
  • Long Zhanye welcomed Shangguan Wei'er and their descendants, then sent investigators to uncover the Holy Spirit Empire's dark-energy ritual.
  • Ning Rongrong shattered Zhongli Wu's emerging God Position, but Long Zhanye intervened to save Zhongli Wu and defeated Ning Rongrong, trapping her divine soul in the Destruction Undead Domain.
  • Ma Hongjun and a thousand Heavenly God Hunters attacked the Body Sect, and Long Zhanye fought Ma Hongjun while the sect's defenders and soul engineers resisted the invasion.
  • Zhongli Wu, Long Aotian, and other defenders fell or sacrificed themselves as the hunters overwhelmed the Body Sect, but Long Aotian, Ye Guyi, and Long Zhanxuan received divine inheritances.
  • Lei Xiang killed most of the remaining hunters, while Vina and Sea Elephant Douluo accepted god positions and Lei Xiang and Tian Hen arranged a thirty-year contest between their Divine Realms.
  • The God of Pride restored Zhongli Wu, and the God of Lust chose Feng Ling as her successor as Long Zhanye completed a fifth soul core and faced Ma Hongjun's final stand.
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Ch. 832Inheritance of Necromancy

After learning that Tang San had manipulated his fate, Huo Yuhao died, and Long Zhanye ordered Vina to keep him alive and explained that Huo Yuhao could have become his ally. Long Zhanye subdued the Sun Moon Empire’s forces and returned to a rapidly growing Body Sect, where Huo Yuhao’s bloodline had produced seven Spirit Masters with the Holy Necromancer Martial Soul.

  • Huo Yuhao realized Tang San had manipulated his fate, then fell silent and appeared to die as Ju Zi and Xu Yunhan wept beside him.
  • Long Zhanye ordered Vina to keep Huo Yuhao alive, arguing that Huo Yuhao had already paid for his actions and could still be useful.
  • Long Zhanye ordered Kong Deming to offer the Sun Moon Royal Family a choice between surrender and death, and most of its forces surrendered.
  • Long Zhanye incorporated the Sun Moon Royal Family’s Soul Engineers into the Body Sect’s corps and returned to a sect that had grown to more than seven hundred members.
  • The Body Sect formed five legions from its new generation and discovered seven Spirit Masters with the Holy Necromancer Martial Soul, inheriting Electrolux’s Necromancy.

Ch. 833The Sun Moon Wild Mountains: Fight to the End

Long Zhanye traveled to the Evil Demon Forest and defeated the Evil Emperor in a three-move wager. He then confronted the Yin Yang Chaos Bird in West Mountain, but after it submitted because of his Dragon God aura, they began a fair battle for his God Trial, which remained unresolved.

  • Long Zhanye blocked the Evil Emperor's first two attacks and suppressed him with Divine Sense on the third move, winning their wager.
  • Long Zhanye entered West Mountain alone and found the Yin Yang Chaos Bird, while the Body Sect's other members stayed at the mountain's edge.
  • The Yin Yang Chaos Bird recognized the Dragon God aura in Long Zhanye and offered to follow him, but Long Zhanye insisted they fight fairly for his God Trial.
  • Long Zhanye attacked with the Azure Sky Evil Dragon and his divine skills, but the Yin Yang Chaos Bird countered them with its Yin-Yang Energies and powerful attacks.
  • Long Zhanye put away the Soul-Absorbing Tablet and summoned the Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King heads, preparing to suppress the bird with their power.

Ch. 834Yin-Yang Energies, Chaos Power

Long Zhanye fought the Yin Yang Chaos Bird, whose attacks bypassed his defenses and whose control over Chaos Qi threatened to overwhelm him. After locating the bird and striking with Spatial Rift Silver Emperor Slash, he watched it vanish at the last instant.

  • Long Zhanye used Ice and Fire Dragon Kings' Sigh against the Yin Yang Chaos Bird, but it dissolved into Chaos Qi and attacked him from behind with a blade of Yin-Yang Energies.
  • The blade split Long Zhanye in half despite Golden Body Arhat, but his Life Soul Core healed him.
  • The Yin Yang Chaos Bird turned Chaos Qi into thorns, and Long Zhanye protected himself with Vast Sea Cosmic Barrier before trapping the Qi with Spatial Imprisonment.
  • Long Zhanye used his Evil Attribute to devour Chaos Qi and Dark Touch to find the bird's true body within it.
  • Long Zhanye attacked with Spatial Rift Silver Emperor Slash, but the Yin Yang Chaos Bird vanished just before the strike landed.

Ch. 835Martial Soul Materialization, Heavenly Stems Divine Eye

Long Zhanye defeated the Yin Yang Chaos Bird, bound it as his fourth spirit soul, and gained a Golden Soul Ring, a torso soul bone, and the god-rank Heavenly Stems Divine Eye. After Zhou Weiqing announced his rewards for passing the God of Destruction's trials, Long Zhanye endured the painful removal and transformation of his spirit bones.

  • Long Zhanye trapped the Yin Yang Chaos Bird with the Six-Extremity Divine Radiance Formation, and Di Tian struck it with the Dragon God's Claw before Long Zhanye pierced it with a god-rank arrow.
  • The Yin Yang Chaos Bird weakened and became Long Zhanye's fourth spirit soul through a spirit soul contract.
  • After a day and a night, Long Zhanye gained a Golden Soul Ring and a black-and-white torso soul bone, while his Sky-Propping Eye transformed into the Heavenly Stems Divine Eye and his god position advanced to half.
  • Zhou Weiqing's divine sense declared that Long Zhanye had passed the God of Destruction's trials and granted him the complete Hate-the-Earth Ringless Set, the Undying Divine Art, and a fifty-thousand-year increase to each soul ring.
  • Long Zhanye's nine spirit bones were removed and transformed one by one by destruction divine power, causing him extreme pain as they returned to his body at god rank.

Ch. 836Level 110, the God of Destruction

Long Zhanye reached Level 110, became a deity with the God of Destruction position, and fused two semi-planes into the Destruction Undead Domain. After killing two Heavenly God Hunters who came to guide him to the Divine Realm, he concealed himself in his new domain and left the Body Sect's affairs to its sixty-four Titled Douluo.

  • Long Zhanye's nine Divine Bones fused into the Destruction God Armor as his power rose to Level 110 and he gained a First-Level God position.
  • Long Zhanye fused Huo Yuhao's Undead Semi-Plane with the Destruction Semi-Plane, creating the Destruction Undead Domain.
  • The Body Sect's sixty-four Titled Douluo knelt and hailed Long Zhanye as the God of Destruction, while Ye Guyi watched with tears of excitement.
  • Two Heavenly God Hunters arrived to guide Long Zhanye to the Divine Realm, but he pinned them in place and killed them with his hammers.
  • Long Zhanye entered the Destruction Undead Domain, concealed his divine aura, and told the Titled Douluo to manage the Body Sect while he remained hidden.

Ch. 837Come back to life, my love

Long Zhanye returned to his original body and resurrected Xiahou Ling, then reunited with her after more than seventy years apart. At the Body Sect, Huo Yuhao recovered from near death but lost most of his cultivation and abilities, and Long Zhanye gave him a choice to stay under the sect’s protection by completing three tasks.

  • Long Zhanye separated from Xiahou Ling’s body, returned to his own, and resurrected her, restoring her martial soul to her and leaving him with two martial souls.
  • Xiahou Ling regained her bearings and recognized Long Zhanye; they spoke about their past and agreed to stay together.
  • Divine Lotus Douluo Vina saved Huo Yuhao, but he was left with Level 75 cultivation, only his spirit eye martial soul, and the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm spirit soul.
  • Long Zhanye summoned Huo Yuhao and offered him a choice: leave freely or stay at the Body Sect and complete three tasks to earn membership and protection.
  • Huo Yuhao chose to stay, and Long Zhanye told him his first task was to sever all ties with the Clear Sky Sect.

Ch. 838The Soul Core Projection Method

After restoring Huo Yuhao’s legs, Long Zhanye sent him to destroy the Clear Sky Sect and then took possession of the Ice Jade Scorpion Legion commander’s body for him, raising his cultivation to rank ninety-five. Long Zhanye revealed the Body Sect’s five-soul-core method and persuaded Huo Yuhao to risk projecting his spiritual soul core into Green Emperor to help him form a second soul core.

  • Long Zhanye had Vina reattach Huo Yuhao’s legs with his returned Spirit Bones, restoring his cultivation above rank eighty.
  • A week later, Huo Yuhao returned with 312 heads from the Clear Sky Sect, which he had destroyed alone.
  • Long Zhanye erased the Ice Jade Scorpion Legion commander’s soul, and Huo Yuhao possessed his body and inherited the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion martial soul, reaching rank ninety-five.
  • Long Zhanye explained the Body Sect’s five-viscera deification soul core method and showed Huo Yuhao his partially formed Golden God Position.
  • After Sky Dream Ice Silkworm accepted that Long Zhanye’s claims might be true, Long Zhanye asked Huo Yuhao to project his spiritual soul core into Green Emperor to help him form a second soul core.
  • Long Zhanye warned that the procedure could damage Huo Yuhao’s source and would kill both of them if forcibly stopped, but Huo Yuhao agreed.

Ch. 839Reflected Spiritual Soul Core

Huo Yuhao followed Long Zhanye’s instructions to connect his soul power and spiritual power with Green Emperor’s, then risked moving his spiritual soul core through their link. The golden core emerged from Huo Yuhao and drifted toward Green Emperor as Huo Yuhao’s Ultimate Ice soul core became unstable.

  • Huo Yuhao pressed his palms to Green Emperor’s and slowly intertwined their soul power while channeling spiritual power into Green Emperor’s Sea of Consciousness.
  • Green Emperor’s spiritual pressure intensified until Long Zhanye used the Luchen Blade to shield Huo Yuhao and told him to move his spiritual soul core through their connection.
  • Huo Yuhao hesitated, but Long Zhanye compelled him to continue as the soul core was pulled from his body and his linked soul cores grew unstable.
  • Long Zhanye invoked “Reflection,” causing a golden vortex resembling Huo Yuhao’s spiritual soul core to appear in the air and begin flying toward Green Emperor.

Ch. 840The Strongest Soul Beast of the Age

Huo Yuhao helped the Green Emperor form a yin-yang complementary dual soul core, but the process drained his power and left him without any soul cores. Long Zhanye saved him and urged him to begin cultivating a heart soul core to stabilize his level 90 cultivation.

  • Long Zhanye guided Huo Yuhao as the Green Emperor absorbed Huo Yuhao’s spiritual soul core and formed unstable vortices between his two soul cores.
  • The Green Emperor completed his yin-yang complementary dual soul core, while Huo Yuhao’s soul power and spiritual power were drained and his ultimate ice soul core threatened to explode.
  • Long Zhanye suppressed Huo Yuhao’s ultimate ice soul core with divine power and separated it from his body, leaving Huo Yuhao unconscious and weakened.
  • With Long Zhanye’s help, the Green Emperor survived his 600,000-year heavenly tribulation and reached roughly 630,000 years of cultivation.
  • Huo Yuhao awoke several days later without any soul cores, and Long Zhanye maintained his level 90 cultivation with divine power.
  • Long Zhanye told Huo Yuhao to cultivate a heart soul core as part of the body five-viscera deification method, and Huo Yuhao thanked him.

Ch. 841A God's Preparations for a Rainy Day

Long Zhanye’s Body Sect had grown into a vast power, but he could not explain why no one else could condense a god position. A family claiming to be his descendants gathered outside the sect’s gates, and Long Zhanye went to see them himself.

  • The Body Sect amassed thousands of members and powerful Douluos while Long Zhanye, Huo Yuhao, and Long Zhanye’s children reached extraordinary levels of cultivation.
  • Long Zhanye wondered why he alone could condense a god position, despite the Body Sect’s many gifted members and the continent’s peace.
  • Huo Yuhao returned to the Body Sect, accepted Ju Zi’s love, and formed a family with her and Xu Yunhan, while refusing the Sun Moon Empire’s throne.
  • More than fifty people arrived at the Body Sect claiming to be Long Zhanye’s descendants and asking to see him.
  • Yan Qingjie questioned the group and examined their martial souls, but rejected their claim and ordered them away; they kept returning and refusing to leave.
  • Long Zhanye sensed the dispute, formed a human figure from his divine sense, and headed to the sect gates with its disciples and elders.

Ch. 842Romantic Debts at the Sect Gates

Long Zhanye discovered that fifty-three descendants from his past had come to the Body Sect seeking refuge, including his son Shangguan Tianyang and Shangguan Wei'er. He welcomed them into the sect, made Shangguan Wei'er his concubine, and invited her to see the Destruction Undead Domain to understand why people thought he was only thirty.

  • Shangguan Tianyang introduced himself as Long Zhanye's son and revealed that his mother was Shangguan Wei'er.
  • Long Zhanye recognized Shangguan Wei'er and learned that the group included seven of his children, fourteen grandchildren, and thirty-one great-grandchildren.
  • Long Zhanye brought the fifty-three descendants into the rear hall, arranged their accommodations, and ordered that they be allowed to cultivate in the Destruction Undead Domain.
  • Long Zhanye offered Shangguan Wei'er an official place at his side, and she said she had come mainly to find refuge for the children.
  • Long Zhanye named Shangguan Wei'er his concubine, with the standing of a Body Sect elder, and pointed out the Destruction Undead Domain in the sky for her to visit.

Ch. 843Three Days Beneath a Black Sky Without Light

A vast blanket of dark energy spread from the Holy Spirit Empire across the continents, disrupting the world and raising fears that Zhongli Wu was using his followers’ faith to become a god. Long Zhanye’s investigators found the Fallen Ones offering their souls and faith, but the energy had grown too powerful for them to reach its source, so they withdrew to report back.

  • Long Zhanye sensed the three days of unnatural darkness, suspected the Holy Spirit Empire was behind it, and ordered the Body Sect to investigate and prepare its legions for battle.
  • The dark energy spread across more than two-thirds of the continents, driving soul beasts into unrest while Di Tian guarded the Star Dou Great Forest and Lake of Life.
  • Du Bisou, Du Busi, Long Aotian, Ye Guyi, and Xiahou Ling entered the Holy Spirit Empire under the protection of Ye Guyi’s Twelve-Winged Angel martial soul.
  • The five investigators found Fallen Ones praying motionlessly and gathering their souls and faith power toward the Holy Spirit Palace.
  • Ye Guyi sensed that the faith power ahead had reached God Rank, and the five abandoned their attempt to advance and decided to report their findings to Long Zhanye.

Ch. 844Nine Colors Sever My Path to Evil Godhood

Long Zhanye concealed the continent beneath Chaos Qi while waiting to see what would happen with the Holy Spirit Empire’s ritual. Zhongli Wu reached the brink of godhood, but the Nine-Colored Goddess Ning Rongrong descended and shattered his emerging God Position.

  • Long Zhanye spread Chaos Qi across the continent to conceal Divine Power and shield it from the Divine Realm.
  • Three months of darkness plunged the continent into panic and food shortages, forcing the Body Sect to deploy experts to keep order.
  • The evil energy converged on the Holy Spirit Empire, where Zhongli Wu appeared above a black crystal eye and began forming a God Position.
  • Zhongli Wu’s God Position took shape as his Bone Dragon King Beast Spirit transformed, but his breakthrough alerted the Divine Realm.
  • Ning Rongrong descended in nine-colored light, drove away the evil energy, and broke apart Zhongli Wu’s God Position.
  • Ning Rongrong condemned Zhongli Wu as an Evil Soul Master who had no right to dream of the Divine Realm.

Ch. 845The Blood Spear Split the Divine Light, Nine-Colored Fury

Zhongli Wu’s failed ascension left him facing the nine-colored divine light as the Holy Spirit Empire’s forces rallied to save him. Ye Xishui’s overwhelming Blood Sea Resentful Spirit Spear split the light briefly, but it resumed advancing, and Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao charged toward it.

  • The nine-colored divine light stripped away Zhongli Wu’s evil energy and awakened the Fallen Ones across the Empire.
  • Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao emerged alive, and Ye Xishui’s first attack on the divine light was annihilated.
  • Ye Xishui drew Soul Power from hundreds of millions of Fallen Ones and launched the Blood Sea Resentful Spirit Spear, splitting the divine light and giving Zhongli Wu a brief reprieve.
  • Feng Ling shielded Zhongli Wu, while the spear’s power faded and the divine light continued to advance despite the Holy Spirit Cult’s resistance.
  • Zhang Peng and Wu Yun fled, while Ye Xishui charged into the divine light and Long Xiaoyao followed, shouting for her to stop.

Ch. 846The Death God Falls, the Dragon Emperor Falls

The Holy Spirit Empire’s Titled Douluos were overwhelmed by the Nine-Colored Divine Radiance, and Ye Xishui, Long Xiaoyao, and Feng Ling sacrificed themselves to help Zhongli Wu escape. As Zhongli Wu and the remaining survivors faced the radiance again, Long Zhanye intervened, leaving the battle’s outcome uncertain.

  • The Nine-Colored Divine Radiance erased most of the Holy Spirit Empire’s defenders, including Zhang Lexuan, Cao Jinxuan, Lan Ruoruo, and Jiang Nannan.
  • Ye Xishui ignited her life flame and detonated her soul cores, telling Zhongli Wu and Long Xiaoyao goodbye before charging into the divine radiance.
  • Long Xiaoyao detonated his soul cores and followed Ye Xishui, while Feng Ling fused with Zhongli Wu and urged him to live.
  • Zhongli Wu and the remaining survivors escaped the radiance temporarily, but the divine light turned toward them and forced Zhongli Wu to fight as a level 99 demigod.
  • Long Zhanye questioned whether Evil Soul Masters deserved the Divine Realm’s judgment as Zhongli Wu and the others began to dissipate under the radiance.
  • Long Zhanye intervened with the word “Enough,” filling the surrounding heaven and earth with divine resonance.

Ch. 847Yin-Yang Chaos Slash Goddess

Long Zhanye intervened to save Zhongli Wu from Ning Rongrong and challenged the Nine-Colored Goddess over her right to obstruct mortal paths to godhood. After their battle escalated, Long Zhanye killed Ning Rongrong with the Yin Yang Chaos Bird’s defense-piercing strike and captured her divine soul.

  • Long Zhanye used the Sea God Helmet to restore Zhongli Wu and blocked Ning Rongrong’s attack with his Twin God of Strength Hammers.
  • Long Zhanye confronted Ning Rongrong over her interference in the mortal world and attacked her, forcing her back despite her Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda barrier.
  • Long Zhanye unleashed his Yin-Yang Life and Death Reincarnation Domain, clashing with Ning Rongrong’s Nine Treasure Divine Light.
  • Ning Rongrong overwhelmed Long Zhanye with her divine power, but the Yin Yang Chaos Bird’s gray blade ignored her defenses and severed her head.
  • Long Zhanye took Ning Rongrong’s divine tool and origin divine power, then trapped her divine soul in his Destruction Undead Domain.

Ch. 848A Dirge for Evil Souls at the End of the Road

After Long Zhanye killed the Nine-Colored Goddess and rescued Zhongli Wu, Zhongli Wu asked the Body Sect to shelter the defeated Evil Soul Masters. In the Divine Realm, Tang San and the God of Destruction clashed over the killing, while Tang San revealed he had sent the Phoenix God and a thousand Heavenly God Hunters to retrieve Xiao Qi and punish Long Zhanye.

  • Long Zhanye explained that he had saved Zhongli Wu because the Evil Soul Master’s path was no less worthy than anyone else’s, and Zhongli Wu vowed to pursue that path again someday.
  • Zhongli Wu asked to join the Body Sect and begged Long Zhanye to shelter the Evil Soul Masters, while the other three Holy Sons knelt with him.
  • Tang San, Ji Dong, Lie Yan, and the God of Destruction discussed the Nine-Colored Goddess’s death and Long Zhanye’s role in saving Zhongli Wu.
  • The God of Destruction challenged Tang San over secretly sending the Nine-Colored Goddess to the Douluo Continent and urged him to answer to the original Asura God.
  • Lie Yan warned Tang San that he could not see the Douluo Continent through the God of Destruction’s barrier, and Tang San said he had sent the Phoenix God and a thousand Heavenly God Hunters to retrieve Xiao Qi and teach Long Zhanye a lesson.

Ch. 849Phoenix Descent, a Thousand Gods Surround the Sect

The Phoenix God Ma Hongjun arrived with a thousand Heavenly God Hunters and challenged Long Zhanye, while the hunters attacked the Body Sect to retrieve Tang Wutong. The sect’s soul engineers repelled them with powerful defenses and weapons, but the hunters regrouped and prepared to break through the barrier.

  • Ma Hongjun descended with a thousand Heavenly God Hunters and ordered them to bring Tang Wutong back as he confronted Long Zhanye.
  • Long Zhanye refused to surrender, and Ma Hongjun attacked him with a phoenix-shaped pillar of fire that Long Zhanye blocked with his Twin God of Strength Hammers.
  • Kong Deming raised the Silver Moon Divine Light Barrier to stop the hunters from reaching Tang Wutong, and a linked Silver Moon Divine Light Wave killed three hunters.
  • The hunters surrounded the Body Sect and attacked, but Kong Deming’s soul engineers used four Level 10 Fixed Soul Guidance Cannons to kill 103 hunters and injure more than 240.
  • The hunters’ leader survived with a crack in his divine armor and ordered the remaining hunters to focus their attacks on one point and break through the barrier.

Ch. 850Divine Fire Scorched the Heavens, the Body Endured

Long Zhanye and the Body Sect fought off the hunters as Ma Hongjun's phoenix divine fire devastated the Holy Spirit Empire and battered the sect's defenses. Long Zhanye faced Ma Hongjun in a close-quarters duel, while the battle around them continued to threaten the Body Sect.

  • The hunters concentrated their attacks on Kong Deming's Silver Moon Divine Light Barrier, while Long Zhanye summoned three thousand divine puppets to attack them.
  • Ma Hongjun's Phoenix Domain destroyed a third of the puppets, but Long Zhanye used Ning Rongrong's Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda to block the flames and enraged Ma Hongjun by revealing he had Ning Rongrong's head.
  • Ma Hongjun unleashed ten pillars of phoenix fire, routing the Body Sect's Soul Engineers and setting the Holy Spirit imperial grounds ablaze; Long Zhanye's puppets stopped some of the attacks, and his ice walls contained the fire.
  • Du Busi ordered the Body Sect to evacuate, but Long Zhanxuan led its younger disciples in a counterattack as Long Zhanye gave divine tools to Vina and Kong Deming and summoned an army of undead.
  • Long Zhanye used spatial power to engage Ma Hongjun at close range, and after several exchanges, Ma Hongjun had lost eleven wing feathers and suffered a gash on his left arm.

Ch. 851The Phoenix Bowed Its Head, Asura Judgment

Long Zhanye used the True Phoenix bloodline and creation power to suppress Ma Hongjun, then struck him down with an imitation of the Asura Demon Sword’s Asura Judgment. Ma Hongjun survived by using Nine-Turn Nirvana, while Long Zhanye, weakened after fighting two Second-Level Gods, prepared to end the battle quickly.

  • Long Zhanye’s ice and fire dragon attacks froze one of Ma Hongjun’s wings and wounded the other.
  • Long Zhanye revealed the crystalline-gold True Phoenix phantom, which suppressed Ma Hongjun’s bloodline and weakened his phoenix flames.
  • Ma Hongjun attacked with phoenix claws, but Long Zhanye blocked them with the Twin God of Strength Hammers and revealed a sword resembling the Asura Demon Sword.
  • Long Zhanye unleashed Asura Judgment, splitting Ma Hongjun in two, but Ma Hongjun used Nine-Turn Nirvana to reform in flames.
  • Long Zhanye realized his divine power was running low and gathered what remained to finish the fight quickly.

Ch. 852Divine Puppets March to Their Deaths, Divine Fire Burns the Cities

Long Zhanye's divine puppets and the Body Sect's strongest fighters confronted the invading gods while Long Zhanye battled Ma Hongjun in the sky. Ma Hongjun set the Holy Spirit Empire and the Body Sect ablaze, and Zhongli Wu burned his vitality to launch one final attack.

  • Long Zhanye's six hundred-odd divine puppets self-destructed, killing more than six hundred hunters, while the Body Sect's powerful fighters gathered to face the surviving invaders.
  • Ma Hongjun and Long Zhanye traded divine skills, and Long Zhanye detonated his eighteen Soul Rings to overpower Ma Hongjun briefly before the Phoenix God regained the advantage.
  • Long Zhanye survived Ma Hongjun's Phoenix Meteor Shower with Medusa's Despair, broke free using Dragon God's Claw, and tried to flee.
  • Ma Hongjun threatened Long Zhanye's loved ones and set the Holy Spirit Empire and the Body Sect ablaze, forcing Long Zhanye to stop and look back.
  • Zhongli Wu's attack failed against Ma Hongjun, so he burned his vitality and unleashed his Ninth Soul Skill, Death God Descends.

Ch. 853Fifth Soul Core, Black Hole Soul Core

The Body Sect was devastated by the hunters, and Long Aotian unleashed his remaining power to kill eight of them. At the brink of death, he formed the fifth soul core, a black hole that caught the lead hunter’s sword and began pulling him in.

  • Zhongli Wu died, while Long Aotian detonated his bloodline soul core and killed one hunter with Tyrant Sky Slash before the lead hunter struck him down.
  • The lead hunter cut Kong Deming in half, and the exhausted Body Sect defenders—including Ye Guyi, Xiao Hongchen, Meng Hongchen, Green Emperor, and Vina—were overwhelmed as the hunters slaughtered the sect.
  • After a hunter stabbed Ye Guyi, Long Aotian shattered his remaining three soul cores, killed seven hunters in succession, and decapitated the one who had wounded her.
  • Long Aotian compressed his remaining soul power into a black hole and formed the lung soul core, declaring that he had achieved what Long Zhanye could not.
  • The lead hunter thrust his sword at Long Aotian, but the black hole locked the blade in place and began pulling the hunter toward it.

Ch. 854Three Great Divine Realms, Nine Gods Descend

Long Aotian, Xiao Hongchen, Sea Elephant Douluo, and Jin Peng sacrificed themselves to grievously wound the lead hunter, while Ye Guyi awakened the Angelic Holy Sword and struck him down. Three divine realms descended to claim the dead and wounded; Long Aotian revived through the Mad God’s inheritance, and Ye Guyi awoke as the Death-Announcing Angel.

  • Long Aotian, Xiao Hongchen, Sea Elephant Douluo, and Jin Peng detonated their Soul Cores together, badly injuring the lead hunter.
  • Ye Guyi’s blood restored the Angelic Holy Sword, which shattered the hunter’s weapon and pierced his right shoulder before she lost consciousness.
  • Three pillars of light descended, marking several people and remains as three divine realms opened rifts above the Body Sect.
  • Long Aotian accepted the Mad God Lei Xiang’s inheritance, and his soul and shattered body re-formed.
  • Ye Guyi accepted the holy sword and the inheritance of Gabriel, the Death-Announcing Angel, then awoke with her wounds healed and divine power flowing through her.

Ch. 855Mad God Lei Xiang, Heavenly Emperor Tian Hen

Long Zhanxuan inherited the Battle Angel God position, while Mad God Lei Xiang confronted Heavenly Emperor Tian Hen over Vina and proposed a wager between their Divine Realms. Tian Hen passed his god position to Vina and Water God Lanlan Phil passed hers to Sea Elephant Douluo, leaving the successors to cultivate for a contest thirty years later.

  • Michael appeared before Long Zhanxuan and offered him the Battle Angel God position, which he eagerly accepted.
  • Lei Xiang killed more than two hundred hunters at the Body Sect with a single finger, leaving only the lead hunter alive.
  • Tian Hen offered Vina his god position and the choice between joining his Divine Realm or following her beloved to Lei Xiang’s; Lei Xiang then arrived and challenged Tian Hen over her.
  • Lei Xiang and Tian Hen agreed that their successors would cultivate without interference for thirty years, after which the losing Divine Realm would merge into the winner’s.
  • Tian Hen passed his god position to Vina, and Lanlan Phil offered her Water God position to Sea Elephant Douluo, who accepted.
  • Tian Hen’s remaining three wives said they would pass on their god positions only if they had not reached First-Level God within thirty years.

Ch. 856The God of Pride and the God of Lust

The God of Pride restored Zhongli Wu to life and gave him a God Position, while the God of Lust separated Feng Ling from him and chose her as her successor. The gods intervened in Ma Hongjun and Long Zhanye’s battle, helping Long Zhanye complete his fifth soul core and God Position, while Ma Hongjun began burning his life and God Position to fight back.

  • The God of Pride restored Zhongli Wu’s faith power and vitality, helping him reach Level 100 and form a pitch-black God Position.
  • The God of Lust separated Feng Ling from Zhongli Wu and chose her as her successor, and Zhongli Wu joyfully embraced her.
  • Ma Hongjun attacked the exhausted Long Zhanye with Ten-Headed Blazing Sun, but the God of Pride and the God of Lust blocked the attack.
  • Long Zhanye completed his fifth soul core and formed a second God Position, while the gods crushed Ma Hongjun into the ground.
  • The God of Lust ordered the God of Pride to kill Ma Hongjun, who ignited his life and God Position to make a final stand.
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